HC-One And Gmb Union Launch Groundbreaking Initiative To Tackle Growing Care Crisis
Care provider HC-One and the GMB Union have today come together at the House of Commons to launch Careforce, a new initiative to champion careers…
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Care Home Resident, 99, Relives Passion For Fast Cars
A 99-year old, Chichester care home resident, who once drove his car across the Alps, has been reunited with his favourite motor cars. Richard Garrard,…
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New NICE Guidance Supports Lumbar Punctures To Accurately Diagnose Dementia
Alzheimer’s Research UK is applauding new NICE guidance on providing treatment and support for people with dementia that was last updated 12 years ago. Among…
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Care Home’s New Garden Is Scent-Sational
The garden at Colten Care’s Court Lodge in Lymington is now an even greater feast for the senses, thanks to a new sensory area filled…
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Embrace “Full Automation” To Release “Time To Care” In The NHS And Social Care, Says Top Surgeon, Lord Darzi
Robots at the bedside and “care-bots” in the home will transform the delivery of health and social care, report finds The NHS could free up…
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Supporting Military Veterans In Residential Care
Research organisation Demos, in partnership with the Forces in Mind Trust and Cobseo (the Confederation of Service Charities) has announced the launch of a new…
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Dementia Champion Awarded Churchill Medallion
Tracy Paine, award- winning dementia design champion, and deputy chief executive of care village operator Belong, has been honoured with the prestigious Churchill Medallion at…
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Release Of Green Paper On Social Care Delayed Until Autumn
Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, announced yesterday that the long awaited Green Paper on social care funding is to…
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Encore Care Homes Celebrates Staff Who Go The Extra Mile
Encore Care Homes undertook a series of acts of kindness during national Carers Week, at its homes in Bournemouth and Christchurch, to say thank you…
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NHS Funding Must Be Matched By Social Care Funding, Says LGA
Responding to the keynote speech by Theresa May on funding for the NHS, Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chairman of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board,…
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Make Social Care ‘Free At The Point Of Need’, Say Former Labour And Tory Ministers
Labour and Tory ministers have called on the government to make social ‘free at the point of need’. The Lord Darzi Review of Health and Social…
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Dementia Prevention Messaging Included In NHS Health Check After Successful Study
Public Health England has today announced dementia prevention messaging will be a routine part of the NHS Health Check for people in midlife. Previously, this…
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Is My Resident Well?
Care home staff are being encouraged to think ‘Is my resident well?’ as part of a new training programme to help spot the early warning…
Read more...Care Crisis Deepens As Funding Hopes Are Dashed
Worried providers say social care has again been deprived of the funding lifeline it needs despite more shock evidence of r the crisis in social…
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Riverdale Court For Alzheimer’s Cupcake
The Harlequin Strummers for entertained staff and residents at the Riverdale Court at a recent Alzheimer’s Cupcake Day The successful and entertaining morning was also…
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